How to Share Music with Others Using Spotify Codes

Spotify is the most used application in Europe to stream music. The app has left us these months with functions like searching songs by lyrics or the ability to change the cover photo in the playlists you created. There are times when you want to share songs that you have discovered with your friends, which taste similar, for example.

In Spotify we find various ways to share music, be able to send it in messaging applications or social networks. In addition, the application has its own codes, which also allow us to share music (songs, albums or artists) with another person. We show you how they work.

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Share music with Spotify codes

These Spotify codes are inspired by QR codes, because a code is generated on the screen, which another person can scan with their phone so that at this time the song, album or artist page that you have shared is open. This will allow that person to start listening to music directly on their device. This option is only possible on the PC, that is, we can only share this code on the screen from the PC, by following these steps:

1. Open Spotify on your PC.
2. Find the song, album, or artist you want to share.
3. Click the icon with the three ellipses on the right.
4. Click Share.
5. Select Spotify Code.
6. A code will appear on the screen.
7. Wait for the other person to scan this code with their mobile.

So you will already have access to the music that you wanted to share, because it will open directly in your app on Android. It’s a simple method of sharing songs or artists, inspired by how QR codes work, so popular today.

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How to scan a code

It may happen that another person share music in the app with you using said method. By doing this, following the steps mentioned in the previous section, a code will be displayed on the other user’s screen, either on their computer or on their smartphone. What we need to do is:

1. Open Spotify on your phone.
2. Go to Search at the bottom.
3. Click on the search bar.
4. Click on the camera icon at the top right.
5. Click on Scan.
6. Point the camera at this code on the screen.
7. Wait until this album, song or artist is displayed on your mobile screen.

After scanning a code, you can start play this music directly in the app on your Android phone. A good way to share songs with others or allow others to share music with you and thus discover new artists or songs in an easy way.